Difficulty Quotes

“The one thing that is most difficult to get men to do is to think.”

“To get a good script is really hard to get.”

“Politics is not a place for the squeamish.”

“I'm always interested in the troublesome, and that's what makes the artist's life so difficult.”

“There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.”

“It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.”

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”

“Ignorance is a tough weed to hoe.”

“My life has been a difficult one, full of dramatic choices.”

“Sometimes you have to just gut it out.”

“It's harder than trying to push a wet noodle up a porcupine's back end with a fork.”

“The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.”

“Change is always a struggle.”

“The problem is that the 'architecture of our lives' is not always designed to make things easy for us.”

“The hardest thing in the world is to be funny.”

“Simplification is one of the most difficult things to achieve.”

“Three things are difficult: to keep a secret, to bear an injury, and to use leisure well.”

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.”

“Good writers have two things in common: they would rather write than do anything else, and they do not find it easy.”

“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.”